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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
THE TOoTHSOme QUAIL.
There Is No Reason Why "A Man Should
Not Eat 1t Perennially.

There Is No Reason why Man Should
Not Eat 1t Perennially.
Eating matches and other gormand-
izing exhibitions are now the rage.
To give the subject interest for scIen-
tific men. reporter called on DE-.
Hammond. whose achievements while
SurgeOu-Gcnera Of the army have
made him illus;riOus in his pr fession.
There is no reason i'm the world.
the doctor said. why man should
not eat twenty quail in twenty days.
or one hundred quail in one hundred
days. Unless man has precOn-
ecived notion that It will make him
i'll. there is nothing in tn, feat TO pre-
vent his eating the BIRDS. This
talk about the impossibility of
eating pigeon a day for thirty
or fifty DAYS is all Imagination.
Nothing but q mental disturbances can
affect the stomach and prevent its ac-
ton in such a case. ANY man can
walk on q board laid down in his
back yard. but raise the board fifty
feet high into space. and, no matter
how solid it may be. one man out of
ten can not walk it. Yet the muscles
and physical powers are just rs strong
in mid-air as on the ground. What
prevents a man walking the plank?
Simply fear acting upon his magma
ton. So il is when 4 man begins cat
ing a bird day for twenty days. He
has heard that il is impossible, and the
fear of failure excl es his stomach and
makes him sick.
Il will agree" said the doctor. with
n twinkle in his eye. to eat one hun
dred quail in one hundred days for one
thousand dollars quail. and I'll win
the money.
Think how absurd these stories are!
Sailors eat salt pork. a pound a day.
for one thousand days; and what is
worse than sailors pork?
But it is said that game is more
difficult to eat as steady diet than
beef or bacon. This IS another llacy.
! remember years ago. in Fremonts
days. that l ate aprairie chicken every
day for months. was attached To an
Z
al officer. and went with the first
parry from Fort Riley. in Kansas. 10
Bridger's Pass in the Rocky Mount
aims. n distance of some one thousand
two hundred miles. We were eighty
or ninety days in making the journey.
and our mission was TO construct 4
military road over that great distance
into the mountains. We had moth
ing to eat but prairie chickens
for two months. As / said be-
fore. l ate a bird every morning
for breakfast, and was glad to get
it. We lived on this diet until we
cross I'll the North Platte river. When
near Cheyenne we had nothing but
sage hens. If there is any thing worse
than sage hens I'd like to see It They
smell and taste of sage brush and they
are as tough as mules. For several
weeks we lived on sage hens and didn' {
get sick ether. When we reached the
Black Hills we changed of to mount
ain grouse-had them every day.
morning noon aud night, and only
felt i'll when the supply ran out
Every phys clan laughs at the idea
of man not being able to eat the
same ar icle of food f"T twenty days
The statement is related 10 our own
household. l eat two eggs every
morning. and have done it for eighteen
months. Idon't look much like a sick
man, do I?'-N T. Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
WAKEFIELD'S MISFORTUNE.

A Michigan village Almost Completely
Wiped OIt by Fire - Forty Houses
Burued-LoSs, About SIOO,OOO-Many
Families Homeless and PenIilsss.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec 27.-The fire which
btoke out inWaketield. Mich, Sunday night
burned The best part of the town Tue total
loss is estimated at 800, 600 The in
surance is small. The fire started in a
var. ety theater, and was caused by q
monkey which overturned lamp. Among
the principal buildings burned are the WdAe-
field Bank, Haywood, WestcOtU & Murray's
large general sore, the post-offce r. A
Morris iewelry store, NJ lenthaI's clothing
sore. the Coliseum Theater, in which the
FIRE started a dozen saloons and large
number of dwelling houses-about forty
buildings in all A great deal of merohan-
disc VS. saved from The burning buildings.
Many families are homeless and penniiCss
The burned dis ret extends from the
Perry House on Front street to a point
nearly opposite the HOte DeMiner on sun
day Lake street All tue buildings on Front
street We're burned except the Perry House,
which was saved 10y means OF wet blankets
The Town was without fire apparatus, and
the flames were staid only through tearing
down Millenthalrs cloth ng store and tine
use of snow and wafer handled with
buckets
The principal sufferers will no doubt re-
build at once. Some of them have already
leased other buildings and are now moving
into them to be ready for business to-day.
Had there been no snow on the roofs and
on the ground there is little doubt that the
whole town would have been swept away.
great deal of credit is 10 be given to the
miners of the Sunday Lake, Bro horton and
Iron Chief mines, who poured INTO town by
hundreds and lent willing hand to quench
the flames
There was great excitement during the
progress of the fire The stress were
II led with hatless women, their ha.r stream
ing. eagerly Sc 4rching for lost children, and
men and women wrnging their hanjs as
they saw their homes on fire The amount
of thievery usual at fires in this coun-
try was repeated LIrge quantities
OF liquor were stolen ant consumed,
boxes of cigars and caddies of tobacco.
CO h ng and food were carried off, and
law essness generally prevailed Several
merchants were threatened by toughs with
drawn reyolvers while trying To protect
their goods Thomas L wis, keep r of the
Sund Y Lake Hotel, a house OF ill-fame was
suot through the left thigh by Nike O'Brlen,
VINO claims TO have shot in sc f-defensa
Wakefield is a new mining town on the
Milwaukee,. l. Ike Shore & Western railroad
about six miles eIst of Bessemer 1t has a
populat on OF perhaps 80 and is a place
OF considerable importance on the Gogebic
range
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
FROM WASHINGTON,

TIE internal revenue collections for the
first i've months of the present fiscal yeal
amounted to $5I $50. $40. being an increase
OF 81. s54, 742 as compared with the CORE
spending period of last year.
The receipts OF the Cove rnment for De
cember up to the Odd amounted to $2l,-
697. S3S, being in exc IS Of 1927, 1877
over the disbursements for the same period.
The death of Hon Seth c Moffatt. Con-
gresham from tie Eleventh Michigan dis
trict, occurred in Washing on on the 22d
at the age OF forty-six years
FoR the eleven months ended November
30 he receipts OF British IRON and steel into
the United States aggregated 1,2ll, OOo
tons. against 725, 600 tons in like period
OF 1856
THERE were POI business failures in the
United st ties during the seven days ended
on the 236, against 253 the previous seven
days
The General Land Office issued 5. 179 pat
ents during December. which is a large in
crease over the record for December las
year.
DURING 1887 the total value of the I'm
/ ports of merchan lise into this country Il
/ placed at SIP, 9S6. 9lS. and the exports
amounted TO 1927, 400. 635.
IMMIGRATION to the Tn ted States from
| England ami Wales during the eleven
mon ms ended November 30 was 20. 2O7
from Ireland 7l.O63; scotland. 20 $50
Germany, lO6 56S; Sweden and Norway
IS. Col; Denim ARK. 9,O6S. and Italy. A.. 3SZ
Tnese lgur are largely in excess of { ost
for the corresponding eleven months OF
1885
AT Jwenty-six leading clearing houses IL
the United States the exchanges during The
week ended on the 81 h aggregated 1916,
7OS. 800 against 81, OI6, SOB, 9O3 the pre-
v-ous week As compared with the CORE
/ spending week OF 1856 the decreas,
/ amount ID 2 o per cent
/ At the Washington uavy-yard a riot wal
recently avert d by the presence of al
armed force The trouble grew out of tA'
| discharge OF sixty men
The report of the United States GeolOg
/ ical Survey shows that the total value o
! the m neral products OF the Unitel State
I for 1856 was over $i62. OOO, 600. tbs
: largest mineral production yet recorded il
1 any country
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
nfrcuInAN

The Newaygo Manufa turing Company's
dry kilns, staye sheds and quantity Of
lumber were burned the other morning.
Loss $4,000
The State sunday School convention at
its recent session in Kalamazoo elected
officers as follows: Rev Washing on Gard
ner, Abb n. President; E W. Miller, Big
pds, Recording Secretary; NJ II. Rey-
nolds, Owosso, Statistical Secretary; w L
C. Reid, Jackson, Treasurer. The Treas
urer's report showed the association to be
out Of debt There are 3, 200 schools in the
SITE 81 600 officers, and q total member
ship Of 27S. 200
John C, Homes. one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens OF Detroit, dropped
de d the other afternoon OF apoplexy.
Boyds livery barn at Detroit was burned
the other night toy ether with SIX horses,
etc Loss. 81. 500; insurance, -, 500
Eugene Converse, the Battle Creek lawyer
who recently committed bigamy by marry
ing young woman at Waukesha, Wis, plead
guilty Of embezz ement at Marshall fe~
days ago and was sentenced to five years in
the jackson penitenuiary.
Larry Finn, who beat out his wife's
brains with an iron tea-kettle, was convict
ed OF murd r in the second degree in Mar
queste recently.
The Argyle mine. twelve mile vest OF
IshpeIning, was recently sold for $3.50, 600
to Morris Sellers, OF Detroit, and other iron
manufacturers of De roit and Chicago.
The report of the Commissioner OF Labor
under the new law taxing mortgages indi.
Gates a total mortgsged Indebtedness in the
State of nearly l40,O0O,0 900. or about
twenty per cent of the assessed valuation
Rev A. II Mueller. pastor OF the German
Lutheran Church Of West Bay City, wa.
found dead in his bed the other afternoon
He died from a ruptured blood vessel, wa
twenty eight years o d and married
81 jOr w ". Van Antwerp. postmaster al
Jackson. commander of Edward Pomeroy
| Post, q. A r., a knight Templar, and asso-
clate editor of the Jackson Patriot, died the
other morning of cancer of the liver.
Frederick K. stearns. president OF tn,
Detroit Baseball Club, has resigned, owing
TO pressure OF other bus ness
The Baraga Hotel was burned the othe,
day, and the remains of a man. supposed tc
be Mr.. Rennick, q lumberman, were found
in the ruins
Lyman Thompson. a farmer, living neal
schoolcraft, while tearing down an old mil
recently was crushed by falling piece o!
| timber.
Sias Decker, well-to-do farmer Of Had.
ley, Lapeer County. committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barn few days ago
The annual report of the State Inspector
shows that 3,944 800 barrels of salt were
inspected in Mich gan during the present
year. There are I42 blocks and 4, 500 sail
covers in the State, with an estimated ca
| pacity Of 8. 265, 900 barrels
About 15O, 900, 900 feet of lumber were
cut at Cheboygan the last season, the laTg
est ever recorded Il falls about %, 900,
| 900 feet shor. of the amount ant cpated a
/ the start, but is about 10000, 900 feet il
| excess OF the cut of 1886.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE will shortly issue her first issue Of
nickel and silver coinage to the amount of
&c. 600, 900 francs
KILOGRAMS of the goth from Senegal an
nounce that Mahmoud Lamine the CHI eff
opponent of French influence in the Sou
dan, had been killed in an encounter with
French troops
DAN DOHERTY, the American who shot
and killei his fellow-countryman, George
Graham, in London. was convicted of man
slaughter on the 20th and sentenced to
pensl servitude for life
The Great Eastern was sold in London
on the 2lst TO metal firm for $50. 500
The steamer would be broken up for old
metal
COMPLAINT was made by the Canadian
Department of Agriculture on the 2lst to
the High Commissioners office in London,
Eng, concerning the many pauper immi-
grants sent 10 Canada
IT was reported on the 22d that the Mex
lean Government would Law a tax on ores
designed for import, in order to protect the
reducing works in the country.
The Mexican Government has granted
privileges TO an immigration company in
order to bring settlers into various districts
The company has obtained fifty-five mill
ION acres of land
HEAVY rains and floods were reported on
the 23d in Italy. and much damage had
been done.
BAvIsPE Mex advices of the 231 say that
the people in the earthquake stricken
district were suffering terribly from cold
and hunger.
AT Dublin the other day man named
MacNamara was sentenced to two months
Imprisonment, with hard labor, for selling
copies of Caitei Ireland.
The other day five thousand persons
MAJ, he'd in proc assion to the shrine of
the Virgin at Aix-La- Chapelle and offered
prayers for the recovery OF the Crown
Prince of Germany
A Dynamite explosion on the Odd in a
limestone quarry near BrOOkfs.d y s,
killed four men and injured two other per
sons
The Guatemala revolution was complete
IL put down on the 26th by a desperate
battle between the f deral and Revolution
airy forces, in which the latter were defeat
ed and almoss annihilated, and their Gen
erals captured and shot
ON the 20th Mr. Gladstone left London
for several months sojourn in Italy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
MONEY GOING ABROAD.

Increase I'm the Amount OF Cash sent by
Money Orders to Foreign Lands.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24-Durlng the pres
emit month there has been great increase n
the number of Ign money orders. which
is attributed 10 the custom OF people in this
country sending Christmas presents of
money TO their friends abroad II is esti-
mated that the amount of money sent
away this month Will be greater than any
previous year. More money is sent TO
Great Britain than any other foreign coun-
try. Last year the amount OF money orders
issued for Great Britain was nearly
$4,000 600, an increase over the pre-
vious year of nearly 100000 Germany
came next with about 81. 900. OOO; then
Canada with something over 81. 600. 900
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
WEST AND SouTH.

TIE indications on the 2Oth were that the
1855 crop OF winter wheat IN Texas would
be double that OF 1857
By 4 collision on the St Paul road at
Jackson Junction. Ia. three train-men
were fatally injured on he 2lst
A FlKE destroyed the business portion Of
the own OF Dwell. Ind, on the 2lst
TEx Gamer San YIncsnte. ownei By the
Paeias Coass SIC mship Comp NJ, was
burusd 70 ths waters edge OF Pigeon
posut On The 2iss. .nd out Of the crew Of
ninets- n oEircrs znd men eleven were lost
IL portions u CO, oTado the thermometer
r = sserel nom 20 10 81 degrees below
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

4 SHORT time ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Brewer. 81 Syivania. o.. buried child.
They were almost heartbroken. but
were comforted by the fact that they
sill had three bright little boys. aged
ten, seven and four years. in their fam
iiy. The other day William Brewer,
the father. and George Cory went to the
woods To cut logs, the three boys ac-
uamuanying them. a tree fell in the
opposite direction from what the men
intended and all three of the children
were killed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

SYLVIA DUBOIS. a negress. who re-
stiles i'm tumb' e-down hut at the
base of the Sourland mountain. near
Pennington. y J., Is reported to
BE- over one hundred and twenty four
yeaIs old She is clear-headed. can
yeeite old-timc "reminiscences with con-
siderable gUsto. but denies ever hav-
ing nur>ed George Washington or
cooked for Napoleon. She is living
with her daughter. Elizabeth. who is
eighty years Of age Her appetite is
good. and she expects to live ten years
lnnenr
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

Dir. CHARLES F. MCDONALD. head of
the postal money 1r,ler branch Of tie
Post-oilice Department al Washington.
claims to be the first Irish-Auerican
graduated from Harvard He mas been
in the Posi-ofiice Department longer
than any either man. He is the father
RI the postal money-or,ler system EN-
ployed by the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

4 NEW YORK man says that the
great drawback 10 electric street rail-
WAYS IS that you can not ride even a
block on one of those cars without
having your watch completely magnet
Izcd and ruined so far as time-keeping
IS concerned. All the electric roads
have the same difficulty. and the in
vcntor-, although they have been try
ing for years. have not yet succeeded
in discovering remedy Until that
defect j. removed. no electric street
railway viii lie success
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

MRs. joins JACOB ASToR. who died
recently in New York. was a woman
who rose above the tempting diver
sions her great wealth afforded and
did signal work as practical philan-
thropist Children's aid societies. in
duStrisl schools and lodging houses
were favorito objects II Mrs Aston :
beneyolcucc. and the wisdom with
which she strove TO help the poor 10
help themselves made her gifts dOubly
useful Mrs. Aston was siNty-One
wears OF age. Her husband and son.
well known a a diplomat and author.
survive her
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

\ RATHER amusing case has just
been decided in the circuit cour. At
Watertown. y Y. A young woman of
that place was hired to write a ro-
nance by an ambitious lady Of the
name Of Perkins, who proposed to pub
Hsh it in her own name and thus put 10
shame p Pular and arrogant author.
who could not then. thought Perkins,
walk 10y her with her head up. >"
The story was finished. but the writer
did not receiver her pay, and SO
brought suit for the amount promised
her. and tine case was decided in her
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Completing a Mammoth swifchboard-The
Largest In the World.

NEW YORK. Dec 81 The largest, best
equ pped and most costly electr cal switch
bo-rd in the world just being compile ed
in the Metropolitan Telephone Company's
build NJ here over two hundred different
patents have been util zad, and the board rs
/. now stands cost 49,, 900 The new switch
board-or DO trds, as 1t is d vided into fifty
four sections will accommodate 5000
wires. with pacity for increas .ng to TO-
600 when wanted The board is nearly
500 feet long To make connec ions in the
Office over 1000, 600 joints had 10 be
soldersd the wires and 5000 miles of
wire used
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

UNITED STATES SENATOR MITCHELL
Of Oregon. now a millionaire several
times over. delights TO remember that
when hc first landed in the Territory
he hadn't money enough to buy a
table for his Office. and no dealer
would give him one on credit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

SEBASTIAN ;. MARBLE. who. BY the
death If Governor Bodwen. becomes
the Chief Executive Of 2iaine. is = na-
I'VE OF DiNheid. Ne In esrly life he
worked in the saw-mills- lie received
common-sehooI education. and has
been q teacher Of schools in Maine,
Mississippi and Louisiana he fitted
himself for the bar. and began the
p.actice Of his profession A. WaldObor-
oush. where hs has since resided He
frst uttered the Legislature. as Senator
Gom Lincoln County. IN 1883 He has
h-eu twsce reelected. and AZ the LIST ssss-
sion was chosen President of the Senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29
MEDICAL WISDOM.
A Cure for ohapped Lips and a Study

Cure for Chapped Lips and study Of
the Cause OF Wrinkles,
As soon as the cold wind begins to
blow" remarked a physician, II am
overrun with patients suffering from
chapped lips. The trouble generally
m snif itself in one wide cut in The
middle of the lip. fused 70 treat such
hings as a laughing matter and
prescribe some simple emollient. such
as glycerine, for instance. But soon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

4 YEAR ago MIS- Moore, Of Cincin-
matt. went TO visit friends in Los
Angeles. Cal. She had few hundred
dollars with her. which she invested in
Southern California lands. and in the
boom that followed she sold out her
property al net gain of 1925. 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

REv. F. +. JEWELL a Methodist
preacher Of San Jose. Cal, has Won
derfully stirred up the temperance
people out there. and the Incorporate
too. by appealing in a circular TO all
religious aud temperance organiZa-
tiens 10 file protests 10 be presented
Is senator stanford. asking him not
10 eudow his new university with
money derived from the sale Of wine.
Nj. Jewell SAYS that if he does tine
university will be founded on the ruin
many Young men, Alarge part Of the
Ian IS that form its endowment are de-
voted TO grape growing.
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Miss GRACE DODGE. has organized
thirteen clubs for tine working-girls Of
New York One Of these is presided
over By Miss Clara Potter. daughter Of
shop Potter. II includes a boarding.
house. classes in dressmaking. cookery
and elocutiou. and evening entertain
menrs III which the wOrking-girls
themselves are the chief performers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

The craze for bits Of wedding cake
to dream on has given place to a mania
Tor patches Of wedding dresses to in
corporate into quilts. The modistes
are bcsieged By their customers for
scraps OF the wedding costumes they
make
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-29

THE Oklahoma 5 tiers Association
j. increasing IN membership rapidly,
and it i, reported that arms are being
q distributed among the boomers so that
they may be prepared TO take foreible
possession Of the territory in dispute
if Congress does not throw it open for
settlement hv April l.
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CHICAGO. Dec % The sale Of the TINES
has been completed, the transfer Just as
good as made, and nothing now remains TO
be done except the fixing Of the legal form
by the court and the enter NJ OF the formal
order BY Judge Tuiey. The exact terms OF
the transfer are, Of course, kept close Sc
cret Messrs- Snowden and West the new
proprielors. have not fed the present en-
moves of the Times that they viii assume
charge Of the D per about Janu ~ J.
1t is understood that tbs price pa d for
she entirs Storey estate Is little over
81. 600 OO0 Of which 1878. 600 is TO be IN
cash
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The Creat Ran Rrnlxeu Tn.

WASHINGTON. Dec Secretary Whit
ney has received Dispatch from Bancroft
Gherdan. commandanJ New YORK Navy
Yard, informing him that the huge lumber
raft adrift on The ocean had apparently
broken up Logs in numbers were fonnd
drifting between longitu le 6s 10 and %
and latitude 80 50 and IS. 10, and were not
nj al danrernns